Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These discussions, however, are not confined to interviews. Some of them approach the classical, and show great talent and artistry. In fact, it is said that some of the boys have yet to repeat themselves...
...there are comfortable chairs and settees for the less rugged), a radio plays soft music, an imitation-marble figurine of a naked girl (with an electric bulb inside) sheds a subdued light on a mohogany console. Promoter Pochapin's managerial desk stands near a wall, for anyone to approach...
...Even C.E.D.'s pet community committees have already showed up some difficulties in the Hoffman approach. Peoria, C.E.D.'s first test city, made a fine case history statistically; its businessmen made concrete plans to employ 30% more people after the war than they did in 1940. But when it came to publicizing their survey, all individual company plans had to be left out: they were trade secrets...
...talk was mainly of deflection and approach angles. Deflection is what a duck hunter calls "lead": the aim ahead of a moving target. Guns are fixed, the plane itself must be aimed. The plane and its target are both moving fast (sometimes one-sixth the speed of the bullets fired.) The whole process must be automatic. Said Joe Foss: "When you're in a fight you've got to think of shooting and nothing else. If you have to think about flying . . . well, you get killed." About deflection: "Best way to get a Jap fighter is to shoot...
...Latinists, England's plowboys spoke an English which was chiefly made up of forceful Saxon words, a fact which may well explain the failure of more modern translations to approach the strength and eloquence of the King James version. Scholars estimate that the King James version is more than 90% Saxon...